compromise
noun
a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
have been compromising
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present perfect progressiveof compromise.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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You have been compromising all along on the factors you really wanted in order to get young, healthy, moral people to Venus.
From The Merchants of Venus by A. H. Phelps
Steinheil really have been compromising and giving herself away if she had thus prepared, as it were, the evidence of her mother against Mariette or her son?
From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil
To have been found with Leo would have been compromising, would have roused Fritz's anger.
From The Woman with the Fan by Robert Smythe Hichens
Certainly there must have been compromising circumstances, for the wife left him, holding over him the threat of exposure.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Now that the day of such patrol service in the aid of Spain is ended forever, there can be no harm in telling some of the details that might have been compromising before.
From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White
